If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.